Job summary
- Main area
- Frail Elderly
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 8.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-MSGP-111-D
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Townlands Memorial Hospital — Oxfordshire
- Town
- Henley
- Salary
- £76,038 - £114,743 per annum / pro rata
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/09/2025
Employer heading

Community GP (RACU), Henley
NHS Medical & Dental: Salaried GP
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply.
Please note that bank and substantive employees are eligible to apply.
Are you a community GP seeking additional substantive hours within an innovative and integrated team in Oxfordshire? Are you a bank GP looking to take on an exciting substantive role within the Trust? You will help support and deliver our Community Urgent Care services to proactively provide acutely unwell patients with further assessment and treatment as an alternative to secondary care.
You will be based in the Rapid Access Care Unit (RACU) at Henley (Townlands) Community Hospital with an excellent and skilled multidisciplinary team. There will be an opportunity to work in units or services within Oxford Health on a bank basis.
This is a part-time role, one day a week on a Monday. RACU is open 8:00-18:00, Monday – Friday and the shift time for GPs is 10:00 to 18:00 (8 hours), which includes one 30-minute unpaid break. You will also receive an additional 1 hour of paid time to undertake CPD flexibly outside of your rostered clinical time. You will be employed for a total of 8.5 hours per week. The unit is closed at weekends and Bank Holidays, so no out of hours work is required with this post.
We offer a competitive salary to be agreed with individual applicants based on the Trust’s pay scale for GPs.
Main duties of the job
As part of an agreed job plan, you will be based in the Rapid Access Unit (RACU) in Henley one day a week, taking a proactive role to provide acutely unwell patients with further assessment and treatment as an alternative to secondary care.
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team” Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression.
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- Generous annual leave
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff networking and support groups
- Opportunities to learn, teach and engage in personal development activities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and supplementary information document attached for further information.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with licence to practice
- Up to date with appraisal and revalidation requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Active NHS clinical experience in:- General Practice with demonstrable experience in working with urgent care and older people
Desirable criteria
- Subspecialty experience of working at the Interface between general medicine and primary care;
- Experience of working with virtual ward rounds.
- General (or Community) & Acute Geriatric Medicine; OR General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Urgent care
Personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Dynamic team player with a passion for older peoples’ care and a ‘can do’ attitude
- Ability to accept new ways of working
- Ability to work in a high functioning MDT with respect for the roles and experience of other team members
- To put patients at the centre of decision making, and treat them with care and compassion
Desirable criteria
- Able to tolerate a degree of clinical risk
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of GP training (either JCPTGP certificate (pre 2005) or MRCGP)
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medicine
- Postgraduate teaching qualification
- Relevant post-graduate diplomas e.g. Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and its application
Organisation & Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to understand how organisations work most effectively
- Commitment to active clinical governance
- Ability to promote effective team working
- Capacity to prioritise workload
- Active participation in clinical audit
- Commitment to interagency partnership working
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience of administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
- Inter-agency partnership working and development
Leadership Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of national and local agendas in respect of primary care commissioning, frailty pathways, and urgent care agendas.
Teaching & Academic Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in supervising medical trainees
- Application of research evidence to clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
- Experience of mentoring or teaching non-medical clinical colleagues
- High quality research as evidenced by publications and citations.
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations.
- Good spoken and written English
Desirable criteria
- Good IT skills, familiarity with EMIS, Cerner, Adastra
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sachin Mandalia
- Job title
- Consultant Medical Lead for Acute Emergency Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07701074040
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